EXODUS INTERNATIONAL:
GLSEN’s Day of Silence is only six weeks away, but Exodus International knows that it’s never too soon to teach kids that, despite what the liberal media and your brainwashed gay-lovin’ teachers might want to tell you, it is sooooo not okay to be gay!

The National Day of Silence brings attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Each year the event has grown, now with hundreds of thousands of students coming together to encourage schools and classmates to address the problem of anti-LGBT behavior.

Exodus International is one of our least favorite non-profit organizations of all time. They run a huge gay conversion industry which includes a camp and conferences and lots of other supplementary materials.

However my primary complaint with Exodus International is that the downloadable press release is in Microsoft Word format. WTF. PDFs, people, PDFs. Secondarily, the FAQ is a giant mindfuck. Reading it you just want Rachel Maddow to dissect it all for you.

Though it would be great to have a peaceful and civil Day of Truth event, many times that just isn’t the case. You may well know that schools are becoming more and more biased when it comes to homosexual issues. Messages about homosexuality are seeping into classroom lectures, and teachers and administrators alike are enforcing one-sided rhetoric. By standing up for what you believe in and sharing the truth you will most likely experience some form of opposition.

MARYLAND:
Same-sex marriage is illegal in Maryland, but they may begin recognizing marriages performed in other states.State agencies in Maryland should recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states until the legislature or courts decide otherwise, Maryland’s attorney general said Wednesday in a long-awaited legal opinion. The opinion by Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler concluded that the state’s highest court was likely to rule that legal same-sex marriages in other states are valid in Maryland. But, he said, the matter “is not free from all doubt.” (@nytimes)

H8:
Did you hear about when Miss Beverly Hills, in an apparent imitation of Carrie Prejean, intimated that gays deserve to die for being sinners? If your immediate reaction was to wonder “What do you even say to that?” you will be pleased to know that this blogger and also Dan Savage have taken care of it for you. (@stylelist)(@firedoglake)

NETHERLANDS:
Several hundred protesters in pink wigs and clothes demonstrated outside a Catholic church in ‘s-Hertogenbosch that refused communion to a gay man.“This dispute began during Dutch carnival celebrations earlier in February, when the man chosen to be carnival prince in nearby Reusel was refused communion because of his open homosexuality… The Sint-Jan church in the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, also known as Den Bosch, was prepared for the protest and so decided not to give out Holy Communion during Sunday Mass… The man at the centre of the row has said he just wants equal treatment – if he is regarded as a sinner, he wants the priest to refuse communion to all other sinners too. “ (@bbc)

PROP 8:
On Friday the 26th, Judge Walker of the Prop 8 trial requested briefs from both sides summarizing their points before the closing arguments. Apparently the h8ers have used this as an opportunity to sneak in a few more accusations about gay families that they didn’t mention in the trial.“In papers filed late Friday, lawyers for the sponsors of California’s gay marriage ban offered new twists on their claim that allowing gay men and lesbians to wed could undermine man-woman unions. The potential harms they cited included giving bisexuals a legal basis for pursuing group marriages and unmarried fathers an incentive to abandon their children. “ Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any more information on this anywhere else on the internet, so it’s hard to know what this might potentially mean. (@mercurynews)

WWJD:
In an admirable thought experiment, self-described Christian John Shore wonders aloud what Jesus would do if invited to a gay wedding. Believe it or not, it turns out Jesus was a pretty chill guy, and probably would have hit the open bar with you. “One thing that often gets lost in our considerations of Jesus is the degree to which he is exactly the wrong person to piss off. And you don’t have to spend a lot of time in the New Testament before you understand that the only kind of people who seem to ever truly anger him are those who put religious dogma above what he most stood for, which was God’s compassionate will. Around Jesus you can whine, lie, shift your loyalties, be late, be greedy, be too ambitious, be stupid, be a coward, be a hypochondriac, constantly complain, fall asleep at every wrong moment — you can do nothing right, and it won’t in the slightest way seem to offend him. But you put dogma ahead of empathy? You transmogrify God’s law into a justification for denying God’s grace? Then … yikes, man. Then you’ve got yourself a problem no one wants. (@huffpo)

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“The “ex-gay” mental cases at Exodus International have already launched their “Day Of Truth” campaign to stop students from being taught that it’s wrong to beat up and harass gay kids.”
WHAAAAAAT?!
What type of cockamamie shit?!
What the shit is going on?!

Okay Ms. Beverly Hills. Haha at the TV’s caption saying “9021-NO”. That made me think about someone like the beautiful B. Scott stepping in and saying “9021-no honey! you better break yourself before we break it for you! You got SOME nerve!…” etc. Ok, it’s 3:41 AM, guys, this is the kind of comments you shall get.
Damnit is this bitch dumb?! I’m sorry but she’s all “I don’t hate gay people, I have friends that are gay, but I’m a Christian.” You can not be a “friend” and claim I deserve to die. PERIOD. You know, like, period? The little dot? The end point? The finale to the statement? End of story? Airheaded asshat.

OMFG I’m soooo sick of this “bible” shit. To the the guy that wrote it… kudos homie. You sick, sadisitic mindfuck. When will people realise that it is just a book. A twisted P.O.V. of “self-help” if you will.

I have to say that it always concerns me when religion starts preaching HATE. No where, in any bible, does god or jesus encourage anyone to hate someone else! This is about civil rights…call it a civil union or whatever. Who cares what others do in their bedrooms. How many of you “straight” people hang from ceiling fans with chains and whips? STOP THE HATE.

It isn’t hateful to have your own world view and belief system. The Freemasons do not allow wemon into there group but that’s not because they hate women. If a Christian world view differs from a homosexual world view then that’s fine, people are allowed to differ and debate.
A Christian church does not owe a homosexual the same rights they afford non homosexuals, this is part of there world view and there right.
If the Christian world view doesn’t fit with yours so….?? Who cares there other faith systems to latch onto they do not care about homosexuality. There’s Kundalini, budism, Satanism and yes I know Satanism is a junket belief system but it also shares tax free status. There’s Wicca,Wisecraft, Luciferians,Nazism, the world wide church, and many many other faith systems including some while rejected by the mainstream Christian churchs that allow open homosexuals.

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